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Le Faye Morgaine posted:When I make a comment to someone and its met with silence. Then I assume they didn't hear me the first time, and I repeat myself, but they cut in with "yeah i heard you the first time". Oh really? Did you? Can I get an mhm or oh yeah or yep or SOME acknowledgement that you have received the information to your ears? Its like I am talking to a brick wall sometimes! Might as well be. Especially annoying if that comment is "I love you."
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Dip Viscous posted:What IS the actual deal with people that get into their car, start the engine, and sit there with it idling for 1-2 hours? I don't understand idiots who sit with their engine idling while waiting in line for fuel, or in the carpark for half an hour while their partner goes into the shops.
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Sep 10, 2022 13:01
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I remember when I was in college and people would go nap in their cars in the parking lot I'd rather be horribly exhausted than nap in a car in a parking lot between classes. Same with eating an entire meal behind the steering wheel. At least go on the passenger side, why you want a steering wheel in your face while you eat
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Sep 10, 2022 15:17
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It’s better to go sleep in the library, we’ll leave you alone unless you start screaming in your sleep or it’s closing time
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's the literal meaning of it. "PSY is my bias, and I love when he gangnam styled into that stable. Jungkook is overrated poo poo for zoomers." Unironically telling someone they are being pedantic wrong.  I love unironically goons
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Sep 10, 2022 16:27
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Brawnfire posted:I remember when I was in college and people would go nap in their cars in the parking lot I think some people have a lovely home situation.
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Sep 10, 2022 17:19
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Yeah, like Jeff Winger who got kicked out of his apartment
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Sep 10, 2022 21:54
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But there were loads of better sleeping spots on campus, people were sleeping all over the drat place. Some people just straight up love being in their cars
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Sep 10, 2022 22:23
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Brawnfire posted:Some people just straight up love being in their cars
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I really hate the little notifications and emails Google is always sending me reminding me of places I've been. First of all, thanks, Google, for reminding me that you track my location at all times via my cellphone. That's not creepy at all. Secondly, 95% of the time it's saying "hey, remember that place you went to?" and it's the same places i go to all the time; my friends' places, my mom's place. But today it says "remember that trip 1 year ago to [other state]?" Yes, google, I remember. I went to a funeral. Thanks for the loving reminder.
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Sep 11, 2022 08:08
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I loving hate bluetooth. Hate how so many devices are visible and try to pair 24/7 for the sake of saving a few seconds. I woke up this morning from the neighbor's kids connecting their ps5 to my soundbar. Devices should only try to pair when put into a pairing mode, be it button, nfc, super close proximity or whatever. Not just hoping your neighbors won't gently caress around and connect for whatever reason.
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SubNat posted:I loving hate bluetooth. Hate how so many devices are visible and try to pair 24/7 for the sake of saving a few seconds. The thing I hate about Bluetooth is how unreliable it is. This device can't see that one. OK now it can see it but the code's not coming up for some reason. It paired but then instantly disconnected. These devices are already paired and we've been using them together every day for a week but today it just says it can't connect. Guess I'll unpair and re-pair and see if that magically does something. Everything was fine but I made a stupid mistake of moving one of the devices three centimetres to the left so now they've disconnected. Or I did literally nothing and was nowhere near either device but they've just decided to disconnect. They say they're connected but this file I'm trying to send got to 13% and stopped. It's nothing but hassles. Turns out cables are fine actually. Wirelessness isn't worth this.
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SubNat posted:I loving hate bluetooth. Hate how so many devices are visible and try to pair 24/7 for the sake of saving a few seconds. I hate Bluetooth with a fiery passion. I managed to avoid using it for years until my ancient wireless headphones finally crapped out. Then fine, fine, I guess I'll buy some Bluetooth ones. My computer doesn't have native Bluetooth so I bought a little USB dongle for the purpose. No problem. Paired the headphones with the computer, all hunky dory. For about a week. Then they just stopped pairing with the computer. The headphones connect to my phone just fine, so there's nothing wrong with the Bluetooth connection on the headphones. I have some Bluetooth video game controllers and those connect to my computer no problem, so the Bluetooth dongle is functioning fine. No, there's a problem specifically between the headphones and the computer. The primary purpose for which I bought these headphones. So I have to use them plugged in. It sucks. Bluetooth sucks. And I hate it.
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Sep 11, 2022 14:33
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People parking at the pumps at the gas station and doing anything other than pumping gas.
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Brawnfire posted:I remember when I was in college and people would go nap in their cars in the parking lot In my old car, the latch on the passenger side didn't work on the inside, it was just easier to eat with the steering column.
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I work at a convenience store that unfortunately shares a parking lot with a set of gas pumps that it's not affiliated with. So despite there being a CLOSED sign on the pumps, another sign that says IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE GO TO THIS BUILDING NOT THAT BUILDING, another sign on our store that says WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH GAS PUMPS, and another sign right at the register that again says IF YOU NEED HELP WITH GAS GO TO THE OTHER BUILDING, at least one out of every ten customers is someone who parked their car at the gas pumps, couldn't figure out why nobody's helping (it's Oregon so we're not allowed to pump our own gas), then ignore all the signs, wait in line, and then get really really really upset at me when I tell them I can't help them with the gas. I honestly get it; without the signs there's no reason to not think the convenience store and gas pumps are connected. And I'm oblivious at times. I miss signs. But there are FOUR OF THEM -- five of them if you consider the sign on the front entrance is posted on either door -- and they manage to ignore each one.
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credburn posted:I work at a convenience store that unfortunately shares a parking lot with a set of gas pumps that it's not affiliated with. So despite there being a CLOSED sign on the pumps, another sign that says IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE GO TO THIS BUILDING NOT THAT BUILDING, another sign on our store that says WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH GAS PUMPS, and another sign right at the register that again says IF YOU NEED HELP WITH GAS GO TO THE OTHER BUILDING, at least one out of every ten customers is someone who parked their car at the gas pumps, couldn't figure out why nobody's helping (it's Oregon so we're not allowed to pump our own gas), then ignore all the signs, wait in line, and then get really really really upset at me when I tell them I can't help them with the gas. Just think about the fact that they are probably paying just as much attention while they drive to and from the pumps
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credburn posted:(it's Oregon so we're not allowed to pump our own gas) What happens if you do? 
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate Bluetooth with a fiery passion. I managed to avoid using it for years until my ancient wireless headphones finally crapped out. Then fine, fine, I guess I'll buy some Bluetooth ones. There's something up with headphones in particular. The Jabra Elite 85H is a popular noise cancelling headphone that competes with the expensive Bose/Sony stuff but the instructions specifically say that it's not designed to work with computers. It's pretty much just for your phone.
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I recently bought a really nice pair of bluetooth headphones that just automatically sync up perfectly to whatever I need it to. It does it so intuitively that it makes me really aware of how fragile this is. I didn't tell it to sync to my phone; it seemed to just figure it out. I didn't tell it to sync to my laptop; it just knew. But it's so easy and intuitive that I worry it's going to start randomly pairing with peoples' devices as they walk by or something.
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You don't even need to put it into a pairing mode? That almost feels like a security risk. Even my desktop bluetooth speakers need to enter a pairing mode before it will connect to a new device.
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and the fun part of all of it is that the random easy pairing is a great vector for other attacks than just being annoying. someone out there hacked a bluetooth buttplug so it would pair with any phone that came near and infect it with malware, and then that phone goes home and hops on your internal network....
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I'm so SICK of getting internal viruses from BUTTPLUGS
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Brawnfire posted:I'm so SICK of getting internal viruses from BUTTPLUGS ikr IoT has made virus scanning your sex toys so much more annoying, can't just toss them in the dishwasher anymore
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Oh dear someone has hacked my buttplug and set it to "paint shaker". Oh jeez, oh wow. GOSH.
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My bluetooth pet peeve is this pair of cheap grocery store earbuds I bought just to have a pair to run with that I won't mind losing. When the battery's low, the ear buds let you know by pausing the playback, beeping loudly in your ears and a robot voice tells you to charge them. This happens every 60 seconds, more often if one earbud has slightly more charge than the other. So basically the manufacturer reduced the already terrible battery life of their product by making the ear buds unusable for the last 15% of their charge.
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Bluetooth is poo poo. Good old fashioned wires are better 90% of the time.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bluetooth is poo poo. If only we had somewhere to plug in those wires.
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My mother doesn't seem to believe me that 'sometimes cell connections drop out' and thinks I'm faking it
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Indolent Bastard posted:If only we had somewhere to plug in those wires. Cellphones getting rid of audio jacks to make sure there's only one plug for data transfer, charging, and audio and thus only one point of failure is probably the dumbest decision anyone has ever made in the history of cellphones. Wireless is always without exception worse than wired.
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It's no biggie, I'll just grab my trusty dongle Wtf where is it I definitely used it here last God loving How did it get down there?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh dear someone has hacked my buttplug and set it to "paint shaker". Oh jeez, oh wow. GOSH. That's a feature not a bug.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bluetooth is poo poo. There's a great German saying about this: "Wer Funk kennt nimmt Kabel" Those who know wireless choose cables.
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people that dont think in terms of cardinal directions having to explain to someone like that that you just know that the bus stop is on the other side of the road because thats the one that heads north, to where you need to be, and them not believing you and reading the entire schedule to make sure
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not being able to tell left from right, north from south etc seems like such a handicap i don't understand how those people do anything. i'd rather be deaf than not have that ability
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The four cardinal directions: North, South, Left, Right
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Some people are so bad with spatial poo poo it really is amazing they've made it to adulthood. Talking people who don't know how to get between work and home without GPS
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Milo and POTUS posted:Some people are so bad with spatial poo poo it really is amazing they've made it to adulthood. Talking people who don't know how to get between work and home without GPS I know how to get between work and home without a GPS, but Android Auto alerts me to traffic jams, stalled vehicles, objects in the road, and speed traps. It also will alert me to a faster route in some of these events. I do have the turn by turn directions turned off most of the time, so it really only alerts me to these things.
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When I was first driving my mom would tell me north is "toward the lake" As if it's a loving mountain peak I can't see the goddamn lake from downtown mom
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